Definition of "clangour"

clangour

/ˈklæŋɚ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural clangours
1. (Britain, Canada) A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din.
  Quotations
  When every least commander’s will, best soldiers had obey’d, / And both the hosts were rang’d for fight, the Trojans would have fray’d / The Greeks with noises; crying out, in coming rudely on / At all parts, like the cranes that fill with harsh confusion / Of brutish clangour all the air; […]The spelling has been modernized.
  , Homer, “Book III”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, page 80
  And always, as the dark, inchoate eyes turned to him, there passed through Gerald's bowels a burning stroke of revolt, that seemed to resound through his whole being, threatening to break his mind with its clangour, and making him mad.
  1920, D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love, Chapter XXIV: Death and Love
verb
third-person singular simple present clangours, present participle clangouring, simple past and past participle clangoured
1. (Britain, Canada) To make a clanging sound.
  Quotations
  It clangoured through the house like a bell in a tomb.
  1924, Jim Tully, Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography, page 67